Hunting 3 Monsters (Ultimately?)

HOKAY-AY!

So this time Journal, I fought three new monsters! I'm getting progressively more badass!

The first one up was a real ass named the Great Wroggi who lived in a new area called the Flooded Forest. I hadn't even encountered a regular Wroggi, but my recent successes filled me with confidence.

When I got to the Forest I had Cha-Cha use his instinctual powers to inform me of where the monster was, and then I quickly hunted it down into a clearing in a high part of the forest above the water.

The sacs on their necks would fill up to the size of their bellies with poison before they would belch out their toxic packages...great.

Entering the clearing; I saw a scene of the Great Wroggi and a pack of its lesser children coughing up poisonous vapors onto a large herbivore, causing it to choke and die without ever laying a claw on it. Even far outside the visible cloud of purple miasma, the stench was almost overpowering.

Strength wise, this creature was pretty much the same as a Great Jaggi, but the incredible threat of the toxins made it a nightmare to deal with. It was constantly filling the air with disgusting fumes and when it wasn't, its pack was sure to be doing so. I ran out of antidotes in less than a minute and so had to focus on ending the battle as quickly as possible. It was a quick but brutal battle that I wouldn't want to repeat.

I still don't feel clean after a swim, two showers and a hot-springs bath. Though frankly that might have to do with the next monster as well.

Barroth.

For size scale - I came up to almost his knee.

When I found him he was literally rolling around happily in the mud. It's seriously a mud-monster. It seemingly got stronger by using mud. The insect-monsters loved him...great.

As I was getting dirtier and sicker by the moment I was at least able to channel my anger into my hammer swings and break off his hard shelled armor piece by piece; eventually bringing him down. At the end of the battle I had pretty much knocked off his entire forehead.

Finally; my last quest for today was from a noble who wanted me to capture alive a creature known as a Royal Ludroth. Apparently the noble wanted to keep it as a pet.

Hearing that, I expected this thing to be small and cute - like, say, a poodle or something. Maybe with a frill? Some kind of crown decoration?

NOPE!

Okay, so this was pretty much awful. This was by far the hardest battle I'd ever had. Moving between land and water, this creature was quick and deadly. Whenever I was in front it'd lash with quick snapping jaws - whenever I was to the side it'd just start rolling over me - whenever I was behind it it'd just whip it's tail around - and whenever it felt like it it'd just rampage around throwing water-blasts from its mouth.

I couldn't get in close; and when I did it would quickly retreat. It took over half an hour to finally get it start showing signs of weakness and being tired.

As it started retreating I set up traps and finally, after a marathon of a battle...

TRANQUILIZER BOMB!

You know...he actually does look cute sleeping like that.